AMD officially announces ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

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When ATI Radeon HD 5870 supports DirectX 11 and 3 monitors management seemed sufficient for a gamer, AMD presents a new model for worship, the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition. A card with double the memory and 6 DisplayPort connectors to monitors settings 3 ? 2 (Eyefinity technology) that enables you to play comfortably Modern Warfare 2, Far Cry 2 or Crysis.

It promises to be the first card capable of rendering one billion pixels per second in current game titles such as "Left4Dead 2" to 80.6 FPS using 6 monitors, 1920 x 1080 pixels and up to 12 times to reach Full HD resolutions.

The speed of the GPU is 850MHz and has 1600 Stream processing units, 80 texture units, 128 units Z / stencil ROP and ROP 32 color units. While the memory clock is 1.2GHz and supports bandwidth up to 153.6 GB / s. In total it has a processing power of 2.72 teraflops, 850m polygons / sec and 68 Gigatexels / sec.

This card also works with multi-GPU technology ATI CrossFireX to operate multi-screen capabilities Eyefinity ATI.

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so will this card require a second case attached to the main case to hold it in?
 
Yeah, I saw that. It can support more LCD screens than I can afford. :P
 
I never liked the idea of 3 or 6 monitors. The space in between would always bother me, so I would rather just have one huge 50in+ or something.
 
Reviews state that you get sick of it.

They said that the bezels are a killer and really start to piss you off after a while. Basically, all the eye candy and huge screen wears off after a few months.

They do not that its good.................when viewed from really really really far away :P
 
shadows5631 said:
I never liked the idea of 3 or 6 monitors. The space in between would always bother me, so I would rather just have one huge 50in+ or something.
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I'll +1 for that.


I have one 50 incher and 2 other 30 inchers. I use the 2 30 inchers to see my aol and etc where as i use the 50 inch ONLY for games.
 
Thats insane. I see no need for 6 monitors. 3, maybe. 6 Just gets in the way of you playing. With 3, you'd be in the center, and have just the environment on the other 2 screens

But, Imagine that card with only 1 screen. I bet with 1 screen, you could play anything at maxed settings. Maybe. I haven't read up on this stuff yet. :/
 
I don't like it. It's not powerful enough to handle 6 monitors @ max res/settings at smooth(er) frame rates. Spending upwards $450 + the price of the monitor for only under 30 frames on max? Closer to 20, actually. Not worth it. And the bezels just get in the way.
 
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZz10rcpfXc[/ame]

As much as you guys don't like this, that's utterly amazing.

Sorry, but Nvidia can't do that with its current cards.
 
this is a stupid question, but....why do monitors need the huge bezel around the edge? My monitor (Samsung T240HD) has a bezel that at it's smallest is 1" and goes up to 2" in places.

If monitors didn't have huge bezels eyefinity would be awesome; however, since monitors DO have those crazy eyesores around the edge...meh :(

Before I buy 6 monitors, I'd look into an HD projector - big picture, NO bezels
 
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